001e meeting please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Al to of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God roll call please Matt Baker here Len Bron Cole here John ker reezer here Nick Vasquez Darlene Bailey here we have a quorum next we adopt the amend the agenda move to adopt the agenda as presented second then yeah all in favor thank you next we have the school Spotlight and tonight we're happy to have Dogwood Elementary with us good evening I'm Kathleen Bayan the principal at Dogwood Elementary with me this evening are our third grade community service club members a few of them along with their sponsors Sarah allsh house Jen reman and Michelle Bron along with our assistant principal cydney Johnson and I'm going
002to turn it over to miss allsh house to explain what community service is and what they've been doing this year okay so thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight about something that is truly special to us our third grade community service club we are thill thrilled to share the incredible impact it has had on our students and community so us three teachers started this club a few years ago ago and our goal was simple to nurture compassion responsibility and a sense of civic duty in our Young Learners what we've seen over these past few years has far exceeded our expectations these third graders have shown us that no one is too young to make a difference through their efforts they've engaged in a wide variety of projects that you will hear more about from
003these club members and each of these activities has taught our students valuable lessons about teamwork empathy and the importance of giving back so we are going to now pass it over to our club members to share about some of our big projects we've implemented so far this year here hello and I will be talking about the Ronald McDonald House the Ronald McDonald House is like a hotel where families stay when their kids are in the hospital they do not have to pay to stay there we delivered Flyers to the houses near Dogwood asking for food donations and went back later to pick them up we were excited with all the donations we got then we sorted and bag the the food to make snacks and meal bags for the for the families we're happy that
004we donated 773 bags for the Ronald McDonald House hello my name is Payton Smith and and I'm going to talk about October in October we collected socks for the homeless they needed socks most because they are out in the cold all the time their feet get wet and they have to walk everywhere they go we made posters and put boxes around dog we collected 711 pairs of socks and sorted them into groups so each location got the size they would need we gave the socks to a turning point never alone and Synergy hello my name is Andy Kane and today I'll be talking about when we adopted multiple families for Christmas uh we helped families in Liberty by shopping for Christmas gifts for families in need they gave us list of what they liked and
005we shopped for seven families at Walmart we picked out toys and clothes it made us feel grateful that we have all we need at home during our club meeting we learned to wrap gifts and got and got them ready to be delivered to families by Miss Al house Mrs Bron and Mr and Mrs Raymond hi my name is Colton and I'm going to be talking about the bake cell during our one school one book family night we got to host an event to raise money for homeless animals at Wayside waves we will also be using the money to make dig dignity kits to give to the homeless people next month it was a next month it was a busy night selling baited Goods that we made we took care of handling the money and making
006change we had a lot of fun working and helping that night hi I'm Lincoln Porter and I'll be talking about bingo at oako we made Sun Catchers for The Residence at Oak Point and we went to visit them on Saturday it was so much fun and we love seeing the people they having fun to we got to them know them and found out they need some help because it was hard for some of them to see and remember how to play Bingo both the residents and our club members got to have a snack and win prizes hi my name's Harper appenfeller and I'm going to be talking about the Special Olympics the Special Olympics athletes and their guests had a fun event last weekend we got to make decorations for this party we made Tiki
007boxes because it was a tropical themed party we wrapped the boxes and decorated them to look like totem pools we cut out colorful piece shapes and glued them on it was a busy night making 20 boxes and we had fun being creative so as you can see our community service Club has touched local families all the way to Liberty they've reached out to Special Olympics um some homeless groups that they've worked with and it's just a great um gift really that these sponsors are giving these students to learn how to love giving back to their communities and we thought you would like to know that so thank you any questions for us so this just a group of the third graders that does this is that right right now I'm pretty loud naturally um right
008now it is offered just two third graders and this year we have about 35 that signed up 35 third graders last year was our first year doing the community service club and we had 20ish so it gained popularity through just the one year and we only have it offered the Third because um I don't I don't know if we could man a whole lot more great so you do what like one project a month or every six weeks or so is that about right that's our goal yeah great do you meet in the mornings or in the afternoons we meet in the mornings every Tuesday that is when our club meets but a lot of our activities happen outside of that meeting those meetings are typically for the busy work either the packing assorting the
009making posters things like that that's cool very neat sounds like you guys have touched a lot of different places in a lot of activities so that's really really wonderful so thank you for your good work and probably thanks to your parents too because they have helped you get all the places you need to get to right so thank you so much for coming tonight I think come up to the front and Mr Michael M Mr Ray Mr Ray I started to say Ray and I said Mr Mr Ray W will take your photo there you go hit it we think you guys are awesome to in the way are we probably be your turn good [Applause] I love that I do too I want to see we with the I think they are I think
010that's what that Christmas the Christmas one is next we'll have recognition of The Golden Girls after a little transition here okay hi I'm Smitha and and I am one of the coaches of the Golden Girls um and tonight I will acknowledge each one of them and then one of our seniors would like to talk about our season that down just a little bit um so our seniors include Avery Aller Grace Daly Mia Grisham Ari Watkins our juniors are Emory Glennon Ricky o Conor and Taylor Ross sophomores anley Daniels JC Hensley Lily kagarice Hellie miles Cameron Slaughter Clare Watson and and our freshman is Payton Williams and we had a really phenomenal season we have a lot of really hard workers and I'm going to let Avery talk to you more about that all right first
011I'd like to say thank you for having us four years and really um helping us in our program and uh yeah we're thankful for being here but um yeah this year it was a great year honestly from freshman year we also did Nationals and state in the same exact way so it kind of was like full circle for me and some of the other seniors and so uh yeah we went to Nationals this year we did a lot of funraising a lot of hard work went into it and um yeah I'm very proud of this team and it was so fun to lead everyone uh to do so well at Nationals and also do so again well at State um and yeah 4 p is insane and I know that's we put a legacy out
012there and yeah we're just so thankful um and I'm thankful to be on this team and the rest of the seniors as well so uh yeah we like to thank you and yeah um we would like to thank um the community of Carney because fundraising for Nationals is no small task um as everyone probably heard by all of our emails and social media posts saying come support us at pickle ball or drop your kids off to Come dance and we are so truly grateful for the community because this program would not be where it is today without everyone um and we also I also want to thank um coach Sarah who is one of our other Golden Girl coaches and then Coach YK who's is not able to make it with us tonight because of
013another job that she had to be at but truly thank you to the Carney Community thank you to the Carney schools we are so very grateful for the opportunity to be part of this program and to have the success that we've had thank you certificates I think the list is [Applause] Gra [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] J Ricky [Applause] take and turn down I'm told that all I have to do is is to tell you to get in your photo out you guys train all our group assume the formation get in there coaches on don't move the are next second parents your turn more [Applause] that's crazy thank you for coming you better believe it congrats it's exciting yes absolutely next we will have Coach Ward and the girls wrestling program another repeater I think
014Eric's got him Eric's yep work that's probably a good thing that you [Music] okay I think we got coach Ward up first all right all right good evening thanks for having us um I guess I'm just going to do a little recap of the state tournament um so uh I told the girls I think before leading up to districts that you know we can't win the state tournament at The District Tournament but we can certainly lose it and the last few years we've um we've we've had a really narrow margin when we when we left the District Tournament we've had four qualifiers which made us almost have to be perfect uh at the state tournament and they were and uh this year we got eight qualifiers which is a a program record um we had
015three freshman qualifiers um actually just let's just get them all up here so I can see and think about what I need to say about each and every one of you so yeah why don't you guys all stand up and come on up here um so yeah we had three freshman qualifiers um trying to think of my sophomores we had Carly and aah um then my juniors I have Riley and then seniors uh Ella and Bailey and I had Milo freshman too I forgot yeah so Mila's pretty good too uh so um we had a really good District Tournament I think we won by about 30 points over the second place team um which remarkably with three state titles in a row this is our first district Championship so we've kind of dropped the ball
016the last few years and this year we we stepped up and delivered so uh eight qualifiers going to State um we went to bed the first night with a nine-point lead and we maintained it most of the day on Thursday it was uh a little turbulent at times we knew we were going to hit some some snags in the in this quarterfinal round we had some really tough draws and um the big determining factor that I think really set us over the hump was that we responded to those tough losses in the quarterfinals and rebounded on the back side of the bracket and one thing I tell the kids all the time about the state tournament is that the the front side is about you and the back side is about the team and um
017those girls that took losses on the front side of the bracket rebounded on the backside and had really big wins um and I could kind of go up and down here and and kind of give you a little synopsis um so Mila sry 105 pounder she's a freshman she was a district her up and took fifth place at the state tournament um she had a really good freshman season she placed at almost well placed top five at every tournament prob top three at every except for the Wonder Woman which is 82 teams um which is a really big Midwest kind of regional tournament we go to over the break so U that's a really big feather in your cap if you place at that tournament you usually kind of set up pretty good for the
018state tournament so uh Mila had a really good freshman campaign fifth place at the state tournament um our one 10 Pounders senior Ella hearnen Ella's a three uh third-year wrestler um we we recruited her out of the hallways as a sophomore I I like we we've got to get you in wrestling you look like a wrestler you've got an attitude like a wrestler um and so we got her convinced to do it um first year goes down to the state or doesn't qualify for the state tournament didn't get a lot of wins freshman year like 14 wins and I don't know how many of those were actual we beat a person right some of them were kind of forfeits but uh 14 and 29 um but she she did all the things we asked her
019to do she went all the summer stuff stuff all the weights um comes back the next year qualifies actually helps us win the State title last year with a uh a backside victory that was she was down big and and got a pen and it was pretty heroic actually so she comes back this year it was our our leader all year long she does all the right things um does what I ask and uh had a really good senior season came up just short of being on the podium U but the biggest the biggest compliment I could give Ella is that she's the leader of this group and after that loss a lot of kids could have went and you know boohoo and sat in the in the tunnel and cried and she got that
020out of her system real quick and and led the rest of the girls and we're going to miss her a lot next year so LS are 110 um senior Bailey Martin 115 four time State medalist 150 career win she got her 150th career win by pin in the semi-finals um probably the most decorated wrestler we've had come through here I we' had three times St champ Lexi Cole but um Bailey's the first one medal all four years uh she was a two-time state finalist she was a state champion last year uh Cornerstone of our program for the last few years as far as just production and we're going to miss her a lot so bayy Martin um what's next here Riley 120 right so Riley a junior so we get her back again she's now
021a three-time state medalist um another amazing tournament run uh she took a kind of a loss at districts that we didn't expect and it put her in a really precarious position in the uh in the brackets at State and so again it was one of those ones that we were like if if we take this loss how are we going to respond to it in the quarterfinals and and she responded like a champ she came back on the backside had to beat a the girl that actually beat us at The District Tournament to get into the medals uh then we beat the returning our district champion and then we beat uh girl who Tech falder actually by 15 points at in January so big turn of events um just kind of great example of peing
022at the right time and and trusting the process and came back and got third they you know the old saying the old adage is that the best wrestler in the bracket takes first and the toughest wrestler takes third so I think that's probably true in this this instance so Riley Walker all right so then we're jumping up to 40 you got aah appenfeller aah moved to to Carney last year at Christmas break from anony Iowa and uh we really didn't have a spot for her at her natural weight which was tough new kid new state new wrestling program and we threw her in the lineup about three weight classes over her head and she responded like the tough person that she is um one match shorted going to the state tournament last year and so
023again another one of those ones that bought in hard over the SE offseason did all this freestyle stuff all the summer stuff um fall conditioning and maybe one of the most exciting matches of the postseason she she pins a girl from Smithville is a returning District champ we were unseated this was our match to go to state um maybe the most excited I got all season in the corner I got pretty wound up for that one and um so yeah she she pens the Smithville girl so it's always good to beat Smithville anyway but when you beat with something on the line it was really awesome so um so yeah AA gets to go to the state tournament she pins her way or pins her third place match over the four seed um so just
024a lot of like upset matches a lot of kind of you know peing at the right time stuff so AA had a great a great run we go to the state tournament she has a really tough draw loses in the first round and then comes back back and gets us a pin on the backside kind of like Ella last year and those little team points on the backside add up you know when you win in a tight team Race So a great experience for AA to go down and see the tournament and get her hard work to pay off and I think she's going to be back next year and climb the podium uh another freshman outstanding freshman Bella winsel she was our 145 pounder uh fifth at every tournament this season uh or top
025not fifth at every tournament top five at every tournament excuse me um except for the Wonder Woman in state so for a freshman a really really good campaign at a at a really tough competitive weight um she does all the things we ask she's already back upstairs working out for this for the spring season and I'm expecting big things in the future from from Bella then we got another well we're going to jump to sophomore Carly Vargas our state champion at 190 uh she's also a Fargo All-American and a returning State finalist from last year as a freshman so she's already off to a really outstanding start to her career um you know we Lexi Cole's on our staff works with her in the room and Lexi's a three time Prim state champ and it's
026it's kind of interesting I I kind of hey look you got somebody coming after you now and uh you're going to have some company on the wall with uh the state champ picks so uh Carly had an outstanding postseason she pinned everybody in the District tournament uh that she wrestled and so I think she Wrestled a comined a minute and 40 seconds at The District tournament uh at the state tournament she met her wrestled technically probably her state finals match in the semis the way the brackets uh came out was our toughest match we'd had all year that um that so was a match we we won in the last few seconds at the Wonder Woman and so that was you know a little nervous when we saw that in the bracket but she took
027care of business and uh pinned real quick in the finals 39 second pin so and that kind of sealed the deal for the for the team so we're GNA we're really looking forward to having two more years with Carly state champ and then another outstanding freshman here Ella Chavez uh we went and recruited Ella as well and I recruited Ella from the the cheer squad actually uh and so she's also a cheerleader on Friday nights but um so I we wanted to find a a somebody we could keep at that weight class for four years and work with and we've uh getting people from the hallways is tough and turning them into a wrestler and merging them into 70 M hour traffic you know real quick and so uh we had Ella had a little
028bit of seventh grade experience so I knew that and I knew she would fit in well with our team and I I I I really kind of just stalked her that I went and found her in the junior high and he like hey you're going to be a wrestler and we really think this is for you and we got her to come to some offseason stuff and she fell in love and Carly and Emma shats a couple of girls on our team took her under the wing and and got her going and real quick a real funny story about her she she went to a rookie tournament at Staley at the first of the year went went 0 and five um and there were a lot of tears and and we we talked you know
029hey it's it's tough it's tough everybody takes losses in the beginning everybody wants to quit and she's like I don't know I don't know I don't know and she stuck around we we started getting some momentum and another really exciting match is when she punched three to go to state um got pretty wound up for that one I some people had some cameras out and some embarrassing pictures surfaced but uh so anyways Ella had a really good uh postseason run and then at the state tournament uh she loses first round to the eventual State finalist the returning Champion she comes back and beats a girl on the backside that beat her at the Wonder Woman so I think the biggest message or the big recap is that every one of them overcame adversity every one
030of them came back and beat people who had previously beaten them and so you know a true Testament to their their growth mindset and this their Buy in and uh you know I think we didn't win a regular season tournament all year we took second like six times I we won the District tournament we won the state tournament which we preach about you know these tournaments don't matter it's all about the process and so really great that it turned out that way when we talk about those philosophies and then they come to fruition so that's about it you know we had a really good state tournament we kind of starting to get the hang of this thing so three in a row [Applause] up here we're gonna get there you go bu [Applause] parents wait
031for parents [Applause] congratulations know knows it all okay Coach hey good evening I get the pleasure of introducing our four boy State medalists um we had nine state qualifiers as a team this year um took second at districts um had a real good tournament um I think it was one of the tougher District tournaments we'd ever ran into with some of the private school multipliers and things that are going on right now and I think uh getting nine through was a real accomplishment and similar to what coach Ward said we had some some tough draws and I think we went down and won the matches we were supposed to win and uh these are the four that came away with uh hardware and um I think that that finished uh with a six Place team
032finish so um I'll bring the the four boys up first we got at that time 106 Bren Robinson I don't know if we'll see that again little slim shake so Bren was a is a sophomore for us he spent his entire freshman campaign on JV and was behind some uh very tough wrestlers and dominated the JV level and we told him hey from the beginning we knew your talent just just wait wait your turn and this year came in and started at 113 pounds and coach grimy and I kept being like hey by the way uh this thing called 106 is there and it's doable with this extra dedication outside of the practice room because we only see him for two hours so he put in some some serious time outside to make sure getting
033to weight the right way um they give you know have plenty of time to do it thankfully with some some changes this year and uh I mean did not hesitate came in won his first tournament um on varsity as a as a sophomore um his first trip to the uh District Tournament came in and and I mean made made pretty easy work and ran into who ended up being in the finals ran into the kid who ended up winning it at 106 so took second at districts and then um his his first trip to the state tournament came away with a fourth place finish so I mean uh 30 wins his sophomore year uh real impressive Bren Robinson you can stay up there you can stay up there next we got senior 132 senior Rider
034Shelton so this one might take a minute um so we got uh a senior here he was a four-time finalist for us um a three-time champion and so junior year we talked about what happened last year so we won't bring that one up again but uh finished his senior campaign as a a dominant state champion I mean n none of his matches were in question um left it all out on the mat and uh he finished with 16 69 career wins so I went and looked that up this week and that is sixth all time and I think the most impressive thing is wrestlers used to be able to have 50 matches going into districts he could only have 45 so like he just didn't have as many opportunities as some of the other the
035wrestlers have and so for him to still uh meet that Mark of 169 wins is uh real impressive um he wrestled just this past weekend at a folk style National Tournament up in Iowa and took eighth so got an All-American status there will be wrestling next year at UCM for a quality D2 program and um I mean just uh going to going to have his his picture on the wall for a long time left his Mark for sure so senior Ryder Shelton blaer come on down next we got 144 senior Blaine Turpin so uh Blaine finished his career as a three-time state qualifier this year he took six place at State and his last win at the state tournament was his 100th career win so went out uh in in impressive fashion um blae lost
036his so the hundred wins was even more impressive because blae lost pretty much his entire sophomore year with a broken elbow so it happened you know he probably only had 10 matches on the season you know so it's like four-year starter for us came back from a tough injury his junior year and again found his way to State real quick and just had made what we call the blood round and just missed that medal and this year left no doubt winning uh punched his ticket to the state semi-finals which is one of the the toughest rounds and uh you know just barely lost to a real talented kid from from Whitfield in the state semis and again finish in uh his career as a three-time qualifier and now now medalist congrats bla last but not
037least uh sophomore Carter Temple so uh Carter followed up his freshman campaign with a similar result he decided to wait till overtime to get a take down to win his second State title so now he's a two-time state champ and he made sure he did it in exciting a fashion took a few more gray hairs in the beard but not in the hair yet so we're getting there uh so now Carter's a two-time state champ and this last summer he's a two-time Fargo All-American so he was a national champion in Greco and took fourth in freestyle so that's the biggest baddest tournament there is uh this year he's already back in the room but uh he's got some he's qb1 I think you may have heard of that too so it's like he spends a
038lot of time on the grid iron so right now this summer his focus is to get that uh football scholarship and then he's already looking forward to getting back on the mat in the winter but right now we're just going to sit back and watch an impressive two sport athlete so card I'm sorry he's legit thank you all for coming it's okay Mom you can come back [Applause] you guys don't want to stay you can those little girls are like let's get get that I've had a call for a while Tim's been well that was fun yeah we have no public comment tonight so we'll move on to the superintendent's report thank you Dr Bailey um just so you're all aware this month we are recognizing our school board um and one of the things
039I don't think people have a really good idea of how much time actually they dedicate and volunteer um sometimes we there there's a misconception that this is a paid position it is clearly not um and so just a lot of time and effort and support um that they give the district 18 hours of Schoolboard training they're reading weekly on updates of what's happening in the school district we have our monthly business business meeting we have several hours in work sessions that we do we attend an msba conference msba advocacy day and most importantly um just the ongoing support for students and staff and you know several of them are at events for kids and just can't thank you enough for what you do so I appreciate you so with that um last night we had
040our Schoolboard candidate Forum so I want to thank our candidates that came out and spoke and Shar shared their thoughts um Justin Cook uh Joe hickey uh Jason Clint and Christina Lindsay um was well attended uh I really appreciated their participation and their thoughts uh Jacob Dylan and Emmy Gates did a great job um M seeing the event um so Ray wanted to let wanted me to pass along that on the homepage of the district website and on our YouTube channel if you have interest in going back and watching The Forum you are free to do so and so just as a reminder election is April 8th so um I also want to introduce um our new athletic director uh Joel Lucan is with us here today thank you for being here Joel uh Joel's
041currently the deputy athletic director of William juel and it's several years of AD experience at the higher ed level so can't wait to have you with us um so thank you for being here tonight Joel um couple shout outs I wanted to give uh Team 2345 Carnage um if you haven't been or had the opportunity to see our robotics program I strongly encourage you to do so um you know last year they were in a very small closet at the high school so we relocated the program to the junior high and you're the expression building come right from Field of Dreams well it it's happened so that program has got has gone from five students to probably 24 students 25 students and it was impressive so they invited me over the other night and um
042it was just amazing we have kids working in graphic design some working in Communications some working on cads some working on software design some on engineering some driving the robot so it's an opportunity for a variety of kids to get actively involved in a STEM related field um you know the first robotics it stands for uh for inspiration and recognition of Science and Technology and I think about what we're doing with our elementary students in pbl and it's really just a great onramp um so I encourage you if you have the opportunity you know their Hallmark is gracious professionalism and so that's where you can be a strong competitor um but you're supposed to be there to support one another and support other teams so if you have an opportunity to go see that them
043that'd be great uh they are competing this week at the Heartland Regional another shout out K had their wax museum yesterday and boy that was fun that was the third grade students and um they got to pick famous murans and um they had memorized little scripts probably two to three minute scripts um you had to go up push the button to activate them and they were all in character and it was a great great time so really appreciate the third grade teachers Angela Paul and Shannon a Ashcraft for putting that on so um couple of updates you know uh what's happening in Jefferson City so we are at the midpoint in the legislative session so uh they're currently on Spring Break um just so everybody stays current so the house has passed open enrollment so
044this is like the fifth year that the it's gotten through the house so it still has to go to the Senate so that's a bill that we're actively watching um the other thing that we're currently watching is um a lot of budgetary bills that could impact public education and that could have you know that could impact State Foundation formula it could impact Transportation personal property tax state income taxes so all of those things um potentially could impact schools so very active session so we're going to continue to watch that thank you thank you we do get a free meal once in a while and we do appreciate that so thanks to the thanks to the Food Service folks for feeding us okay next the consent agenda move to approve the consent agenda as approved I
045move to move the consent agenda to be approved as presented it's been a long week get a little tongue tight both of us okay all in favor post thank you always have next we have information items Bond project update hi Ben good evening everybody so got some exciting news to report on this month we're going vertical um so a lot of good things happening um this is a picture of carne Elementary on the backside so the block work is done there's a pretty hard winner getting through that but we're glad to be done with it um we're setting steel right now and we actually did the uh beam signing I think yesterday at this school so we've gotten to do a couple of those here recently the kids get to engage and have a lot
046of fun with it so um things are going well here uh steel will set for another week and a half and then we'll start the roofing process and then fit out the interior side let's go to the next picture and then this is a picture of the front side so we've already got a roof on this and just starting to fit out what we can on the inside um and then this additional get extended as soon as school gets out we'll shut off that whole front entry and and build the whole media center space out but things going well here too okay we've got Dogwood so this one is the furthest one along you can see it's got the roof on it already so we're what we call dried in it allows us to put
047all the interior rough in things like that uh on the inside of the building and this will be the first one of the additions to finish um you'll start to see the water proofing go on the outside here in the next week or so um but all things are good out at Dogwood and here's our yeah here's one of our beam signings so the kids and our team actually loves doing this uh I got a note from the steel contractor at the last beam signing he said thanks for allowing them to participate in it because it's a lot of fun for them and the kids love to see the crane going and and just get out and be a part of it too so um it's been a lot of fun um and so this
048is Hawthorne this is the inside so uh steel is set Roofing is uh starting next week and then the interior mechanical electrical Plumbing uh will start going in here so we're really you know doing great on these additions and then as soon as school gets out obviously we go and cut all the connections in and and do the interior renovation stuff but things are uh tracking just like they should be any questions for me great thank you thank you Ben next financials Ginger just have a couple of points to make of the reports in your packet uh as of today we have 97 a half% of our property taxes collected and we're forecasting a little over 19% as our operating fund we had a big push on completing purchase orders this month positive outlooks we're
049tracking pretty close to where we were last year about a 1% difference right yeah that's good news any questions okay next we have program evaluation for the career in teched and that's a written report does anybody have any questions about that is this the one where that it cost less this year than it did last like two years ago that's kind that's good what happened there I like that any idea well part of it is um we don't end up spending all the money that we budget for some of the Career Centers we have a cap of 25 each year of for each career center we have a cap of 25 we fill those slots in the spring and then they um a lot of kids changed their mind over the summer because their High
050school kids and they changed their minds okay and then it's too late to slot anybody else in their places so that um so we end up giving money back to Ginger okay okay next we have another written evaluation for the special education program any questions on that one this one keeps in increasing yes right it's the opposite so what's going on there just some perspective because I don't know out of context that's Hannah's that's Hannas Hannah do you want to come up to the mic just talk a little bit about special speci just out of curiosity just to kind of know what to expect what's your specific question my specific question is that we tend to end up in the red is that right yeah I mean so what do that what does that have
051as as you know as our incident rate has increased where we have more children in special education usually that's tied to more Personnel more teachers more Paras um sometimes additional outside placements we've had some additional outside placements Transportation cost of increase so just transporting kids is about half of the cost of just their what it costed for them to go there okay um so yeah identifying more students fair enough appreciate it okay thank you Hannah next we have a presentation from Hope Squad yeah um hope Squad it's a student leadership program that we are looking at um it's a program that could go all the way through High School it could eventually replace our suicide um education piece some schools do use it for that we would start it with fourth fifth sixth and seventh
052and then roll up from there um uh we have Amanda tter who is one of our social workers she's kind of been leading this project for us and um Sher Miller with Beacon and they're here to tell you a little bit more about it thank you awesome thank you so much um so like Jennifer said my name is Amanda texter I'm one of the social workers in the school district um also a parent who had a community service Club member so I was excited to see them tonight um and this is uh Beacon Community Middle health center youth prevention supervis Sherry Miller so if our district did Implement hope Squad um Sherry would be our support person who would be at our fingertips and speak to her agency's role she'll do that in a minute
053after I tell you a little bit more about what hope squad's about um so as you can see from this slide hope Squad is a peer-to-peer model that was developed by a school principal a decade or so ago out of Utah uh today it has developed into a larger evidence-based program that is used by thousands of schools in the United States and Canada and there 's quite a few school districts in the Northland that have gotten on board so we're really excited to think about this as an opportunity um so what it entails is essentially if our district uh purchased the Hope Squad curriculum um both at the elementary and the secondary level um there would be regular uh meetings with these hope Squad leaders um so like children that are in the program and
054then two advisers per school so they would be going over this regular curriculum with kids um and uh basically there's a lot of different schoolwide activities that would go along with this so we've reached out to other districts to kind of learn what all they do and we've heard different things from kindness rocks or messages around the school tabling at school events um perhaps like the leaders would welcome the children on the way into school give out cand candy maybe introduce themselves at assemblies um I kind of think of this as like a student counil sort of but with a component of mental health awareness um it's important to note that even though this is a suicide prevention program the vernacular at the elementary level is more about kindness and inclusion um and how to
055help others um so it's very important to know that they're not being taught on how to be like therapists or counselors the kids main role is to be kids and interact with their peers and if they hear um concerning statements or if a peer can es in them like hey I'm not feeling great or have a concern their primary role is to go right to an adult so to the advisers of the program any of their teachers um for us to then take the appropriate action um so why would it benefit Carney School District it would provide an opportunity for student leadership um students typically tell friends when and where there's a concern so it helps us reach students we might not usually hear from um it also provides ongoing opportunities for natural conversations uh
056to promote student health and happiness and then it Fosters that culture of kindness and connectedness at a young age um so our goal is um like Jennifer cop said to start with the elementary schools in fourth and fifth and middle school and then if all goes well the hope is to expand it in the future to higher grades um currently our district does have the signs of suicide program at the junior high and the high school level um but that's a screening that's only done once a year so this is kind of a neat program that really um is more than just a day um so we have had several meetings with Sherry um as well um as the counselors at the Smithville School District um so we've had the social workers the councelors and
057the administrators um all meeting together to learn more about this um and really what I've heard is folks are really interested and think it would benefit our district um in these sessions I've heard staff say um that they love that it's an opport opportunity to help Foster leadership skills for students it's an Innovative way to help us identify students that could use some support it keeps kids mentally healthy to allow for school and life success um and then they really appreciated that at each level it's very age appropriate um kids naturally talk to their friends so it's a great way to move up concerning conversations to an adult support level hi I am Sher Miller I am um yes I work at Beacon but I'm also a retired um educator and administrator in Missouri for
05830 some years so couple things I I have everything written down so I stand my time but if I had hope Squad when I was an administrator I would have given anything because it's s it's sustainable it's peer-to-peer you know what we think worry about the stigma about kids and what our kids say after they're trained is that you know what now I know what to do we say oh that's so much pressure but kids say now I know what to do so it takes the pressure off of our kids um when we think about um the support system that we provide it is a peer-to-peer seven out of 10 seven of 10 kids will always tell a friend regardless of the great relationships that you've seen with with your coaches and things like and
059your teachers they're still going to tell another kid about issues before they're going to tell an adult so with all those kinds of things that are going on this is a program that I was trained um four years ago as a master trainer at Hope Squad I do support over 50 schools in the Northland Area um in regards to Hope Squad and hope Squad something you also probably need to know is that it is an evidence-base and it is National it's on the National Suicide Prevention centers for Best Practices uh it's proven success it's in in thousands of schools as Amanda said Dr hudnell who founded the program in 2004 said you know it takes a village to raise a child but it takes an envir an entire Community to save one and I think
060we all truly believe that sometimes it takes all of us to save that child um and so you know I could tell you tons about Hope Squad and why I truly believe it is so important um for our kids in our district um and so I I truly appreciate this time that you've given us to talk about it and I also appreciate the consideration of the board for you to look at it for Carney School District as far as real quick with the beacon partnership um hope squads do require a partnership with either a mental health facility or a behavioral health because we want to be able to not only do we identify students that at risk but we also because the youngest child that has died by Suicide is kindergarten and I think we
061have to always recognize that um but you know what we'll provide that therapy for families who may not be able to it's not required that families come to Beacon but because of the partnership with Beacon we will make sure that if there's a family in need that gets referred or or or has any type of issues whatsoever you know what Beacon is going to be there they're going to partner with with that family with your schools with your with your administrations to do whatever we needed to support that child so that's one of the things uh that we partner with and then the other thing that I get to do that's fun um because as a prevention specialist you know what through the help of the Clay County Children's Service fund I get to do
062really cool things so I can provide all the shirts to help save costs for your District I can provide the swag I host a middle school and an elementary conference every year for Hope squads and I get 300 50 kids that come and they're free of charge and you can see some pictur there our kids are engaged and they're active and one of the things I told Amanda they leave and I the kids said to his teacher this has been the best day ever because they learned so much the other thing that's important to know as a school board is that the curriculum is only taught to the Hope Squad kids and those hope Squad kids the parents have to sign off it is not a curriculum that's taught to the school as a whole
063it's only taught to the to the to the Hope Squad that has been developed by professionals um and kids can't say hey I want to join kids are nominated based on whether they're trustworthy based on whether they're good listeners and they are nominated and that's how become hope Squad members and you have to have every single per every single part of your organ of your school involved your sped kids your kids that are in trouble all those things because those are kids that other kids listen to too and that's trustworthy so those things are important within this you know I get to provide supplies and needs in fact I've got all kinds of LIF Savers and motivational cards in my office and and and friendship and positive saying braak in my office that I'm Distributing
064now we provide all those things I just provided a plaque for a buddy bench um so those are a lot of the things that we provide as well as I have a social media person that we do like International Day of hope all of those things we would give to your own um your District uh media people and then you would be able to put that out onto your things as you want so those are a lot of the other things that we provide as well and that I'm able to provide for those kids for Hope Squad kids thank you so much for your time what questions do you have I don't have a question but I I want to comment that you know anything that cultivates empathy is good in my book and needed
065in this community so you'll notice it's not on the agenda to decide tonight what we wanted to do is give you the opportunity to hear the information and if you have questions want to make sure that we're answering them but really the appealing part and Jennifer correct me if I'm wrong it it's really student leadership right dialing into that um giving kids the opportunity we we know the power of that peer conversation is impactful so that was what was appealing about the program tell me what grades was it again where where do you start it's going to be fourth and fifth um so if this is approved next year our hope is fourth and fifth and then sixth and seventh so all of the Middle School um and then hopefully progressing forward as the years
066continue and how many kids out of each grade are picked that's up to the district it's actually up to the school level typically it depends on the size of your building but typically 10 to 15 maybe uh per grade level but then it impacts the entire school so even though they're fourth and fifth graders they will do things that will impact impact the kup um but that's typically how many per grade level and it's funded by the Children's Fund is that right that who funds it yes it would be funded by the Children's Fund okay so what is it look like in the context of the school day and what are the teachers responsibilities is it going to be be something else they're going to have to monitor and do what does that look like
067cool thing the advisers they're the ones that are going to they'll have meetings with the kids whenever they can find time when they work it out whether it's once a week once every two weeks or whatever as far as the the regular teachers the cool thing is it doesn't add anything to their plates their only expectation is that they know of the program and if a if a hope Squad kid comes and says hey I need to go talk to Mrs texter you know they let them go and so they know about it and they get educated about the program but they don't have anything extra on their plate so each school would have their own latitude of once those kids get selected we'd probably work with the parents and the advisers to see does
068it work better to meet before school after school during the day at some point um have we had a program like this before not that I'm aware of Jennifer no you know Liberty is in the initial stages of implementation and it their Schoolboard president pres is the one that really got behind it so if any of you know I mean that would may be somebody that you could actually talk to about how that's going in in Liberty uh they are just now implementing this year um we also have North Kansas City that's implemented Smithville uh Liberty school district and then uh the Job Corp in excelsor Springs will be the first Job Corp in the united in the whole United States to have a to have a hope Squad they also have hope squads in
069the military as well as senior citizens and those kind of things that have all developed all because of the need for support of mental Wellness so will there be um say one advisor per school is that the idea how do you determine that two advisers per school um so we're thinking like the school counselors social workers and then since there's not a social worker at every building we're going to do um like open it up to the teachers and have them do a survey of like why do you want to be a part of this and then figure out the best fit for that perfect thank you all right thank you so much thank you next we have our action items first one approval an amendment with new Kirk Novak move to approve amendment number
070nine with new Kirk Novak as presented somebody want a second second thank you sorry Mr no so this this is an amendment to the original um contract with new Kirk Novak and it is has six deferred maintenance items on it uh that new Kirk Novak is overseen and uh they are slated to be started and completed this summer funded through our 2022 Bond happy to answer any questions Ben is here as well about any of those projects so essentially we've had money that's not been used yet right because you guys have done so well at partnering and getting the best for it and we've have money left over we've done well and so now we have additional projects that we can take on and essentially the difference between the um full Elementary School and the
071additions has allowed us to have this this money to take on the Deferred maintenance projects yes through fiscal responsibility correct correct well I think another thing to point out is each one of these um you guys had good bid counts I mean it looks like every one of them had at least three bid counts one had six so um we appreciate you guys going out and trying to get competitive bids to to give us the best bank for a bu absolutely okay all in favor posted thank you next approval of amendment with DLR move to approve Amendment 16 with DLR group as presented second so this would this would ask for approval of U this amendment with the DLR contract so this would be a deferred maintenance project that didn't make it onto this month's
072um approval it as as they got it as we got into the the wall project with the Middle School realized that there was some architecture design that was going to be needed um to tie in wall to roof and when window structures and so this is to to um got in touch with DLR they're on board and provide the the needed architecture and design to complete that project and and if if things fall into place then this would also be a a summer of 25 project also funded through um stillo my to complete the project yes yeah and that's the facade of the West West Wall West wall and north north wall yep yep questions any questions the Middle School keeps giving doesn't it yes my favorite school okay all in favor post thank you
073next we have approval of the agreement with OCC Tech move to approve the agreement with ocu tech as presented second this is a a new contract that is um essentially required before uh renovation or demolition work would con um would start at the three elementary schools Dogwood Hawthorne and K and it would be basically testing for U hazardous materials asbest and that way it's another step to uh prevent the the new Kirk demolition crews of getting involved in something that that they if we just test for it then we know about it and it wouldn't um make things worth worse and spread with with the the starting of the demolition Ben you I don't know if you need to yeah it's just a work protection thing we got know in space and if there is
074we would work to get it updated ahead time D procedure any time you're renovating an old building have we had this test done on the building before have we had the test done on the building for it's not the first renovation so the district does a certain level of testing um just every three years Tri [Laughter] annual to renovate a space there's addal okay because if if you Asus down and releases a bunch of stuff in there andards workers or anything like that so we just have to make sure and a close look at everything and it is as best as I assume to this point uh we have not found any Aus do we ever have we had to mitigate any before at the middle school we we have mhm the time period fits
075with carne Elementary doesn't it the most recent one the most recent batement we've done is at the middle school and it's been with tile glue yeah okay any other questions all in favor post thank you next we have thank you thank you than sir next we have the approval of the agreement with Panorama move to approve the renewal agreement service order for with pamama as presented who wants it I'll take it sure okay we are bringing back um this was an item we brought in February um and the board had questions um and wanted more information so we we had a March 3D work session and one of the things that we uh the board asked us to do is really take a look at what are other Alternatives um so we generated a list
076of probably four or five other uh Universal screeners um which is primarily why we use P Panorama for the screening function it also comes with a data warehouse so we did a little quick comparison um and again it's not a deep dive but it was just really to explore begin the conversation about exploring what other Alternatives that that are available um Administration is bringing this back to you um after that discussion uh we feel like the screening protocol is appropriate um we we think the data warehouse really does a nice job of allowing academic team or school teams to look at both academics and social emotional concerns to make decisions about the whole child I do believe that data warehouse piece our staff still needs training on how to best utilize that um one of
077the things that we also talked about in the work session is that we would have a process action team or we would pull together a team next year really to look at kind of tier one behavior supports um as well as universal screening tools um and just to make do a little bit deeper dive into the exploration so that's a recap of the March 3rd I'm happy to entertain questions or have more conversation about that I appreciate the work that you guys did to bring us other options into look at stuff it was a good conversation um it was good to see other options out there too so thank you for that oh happy to do it um and uh yeah there's just different functionality with different tools and different information um we do feel
078pretty strongly that we we can and should be screened looking for kids that either internalized Behavior right or externalized behavior and developing plans any other questions ready to vote all in favor post thank you next we have approval of agreement with parent Square move to approve the agreement with parent Square as presented good evening board oh sorry we have a second now go ahead Mr White good evening board thank you for giving me the opportunity to share some exciting information about parent Square uh I will move through this with my usual efficiency and then we can uh uh you can ask questions when I get to the end here um so it's very important to us it's built into our strategic plan that we are going to uh communicate well and engage deeply with our
079key stakeholders um it's a pillar of the work that we do we cannot do we cannot achieve our Global ends if we're not doing that work if that's not part of how we're doing what we do okay so one of the things we've heard as we've engaged with our community is that um for many of our key stakeholders particularly parents it's too much there are too many particularly applications there too many apps too many tools that they're being asked to utilize um I can think of a couple of folks sitting in front of me right here who have mentioned this to me and we have heard this input and we are being responsive to that so um this has been a fairly long process um but it led up to uh this winter a uh
080a committee was formed and uh they had a a goal to really find one platform that would do everything we needed for everybody who was going to be using it um we have developed a culture in this District of uh engaging with our key stakeholders whenever we make big decisions right um this is something that Dr Miller established as a presedent for our district and this process uh was very much conducted in that Spirit we had representatives from our staff we had teachers we had we had um coaches activity sponsors we had Parents um from across the district a couple of folks again who serve on the board were part of that process and I really appreciate your input they did great work they worked very hard they were very diligent um I gave them
081a lot of information um and Ryan too Ryan was definitely a co- facilitator of this process and they did great um so the process we uh we we looked at what we're already using um and and I want to part of want I want to add a shout out to Katherine cash um coach cash who was part of that committee she actually went and and did a whole um uh put together a whole spreadsheet of all the different apps that were being used by the different coaches um so that we could see very clearly like kind of what a um a sort of free of a better term a mess it was um and we identified what our key priorities were uh our key needs in terms of of what do we need with our
082system what is that one system what does it need to do um we gathered a lot of feedback from folks who are going to be using those tools uh and then we evaluated some uh uh potential sources and part of that was we uh we got inut not input not just from vendors but um we also reached out to a lot of districts within Missouri and we got um perspectives and resources from them as part of that process proc and ultimately uh we had a discussion we had some really good discussions around this and came up with a recommendation and that is we are uh recommending the adoption of parent square that of course is the motion that's on the table in front of you um parent square is um uh it is that one
083unified platform I'm not going to go through these one by one I'm going to race through these uh but it is this one unified platform that we need for this District um it includes Mass notifications um it uh will IT addresses classroom communication needs and uh and then there's um some really great Tools in terms of school services like forms permission slips calendars and event RSVPs that we can do with this platform I'll add a couple things um our data um will be uh safe and secure and accessible Ryan has prepared a privacy agreement that is also part of this uh and so we have full confidence in that that's very important to us there is a a the parent Square does have a payment tool that is an add-on that we can add-on at
084any time we will be talking to them about that that's something we're going to learn more about um if that will help us do things more efficiently uh and also it will help us comply with some of the new rules that have come down from the federal office of civil rights uh which is also very important next steps so uh as soon as this uh is approved by you all uh we will begin implementation uh parent square is ready to roll this is not the first time they've done this they've worked with a lot of districts in Missouri who have made the same transition and uh so we will we'll start rolling this out right away uh I will be coordinating with uh their support staff um they come very highly recommended from districts that
085use them across the state their their support services their their customer service is outstanding and so I'm very confident that that's going to be um a really good uh rigorous process with their support uh we are particularly prioritizing um coaches and activity sponsors one of the things that we did throughout this process is we kept them uh in the loop with all the different options that we were looking at um and so they're aware that this is going to be happening um again I want to give credit to um coach cash and Coach wrestler who are going to be helping us kind of um you know reach out to that group and make sure that that that they're being coached along pun intended um with the adoption phase and Coach cash is actually stepped and
086volunteered to help um kind of do a soft launch for summer camp kids this year with uh this summer um and so that that their their leadership will be a key part of that process developing lots of um training materials and support staff we are updating our handbooks in terms of clarifying that um this again this this is going to be our our prescribed uh tool for uh Communications and engagement uh left to right top to bottom uh and so that will be the expectation going to be doing a ton of PD for staff uh the actual contract will officially kick in July 1 all right uh I am very excited about this process I've been with uh Carney School District for four years this has really been something that I've been thinking about virtually
087from day one uh and so I appreciate you guys giving me your attention and what are your questions so like elementary teachers that use like Class Dojo is that right and then um do I have clever I don't know what else I have I have something else seesaw seaw so like seesaw I have some pictures that teachers have sent is that something that I need to be screenshotting and keeping because I won't have access to that anymore so uh that kind of thing I think Ryan sorry um for in that specific case let me follow up with you I don't is that something that we parents I we will make sure that I will follow up on that I don't have an answer for you with that kind of thing like uh existing material that
088may be in those those apps now you know I if as long as they still have that account like part of the challenge with this is that there's a lot of accounts being used that are not frankly District accounts they don't have they don't have any oversight from us and I think the point you make is a good opportunity for me to clarify that one of the reasons we're doing this is that there's just a lot of information that's out there involving our students and our parents and our staff in being stored in in applications that data is being being used by applications that we have no control over and um you know we we need to get that under control so well I appreciate your guys' work I maybe one of those parents that
089requested this so good work I I know it's I know it's a ton of work and I know getting everybody on board to go along with it will also be a ton of work so I appreciate it very much I I do I appreciate Ry and Ryan facilitating this process because it's like her and cats I mean it's tough trying to get everybody on that same same platform before uh you go to your SE can you talk a little bit more about website design yeah so one of the things that this is going to be doing is get we're getting a new we're getting new websites so I kind of glossed over some of the things that we're going to be getting this because I in the in the name of efficiency but yes I'm
090very excited about the fact that we will be transitioning from our current uh sites that are hosted uh through WordPress through the WordPress platform that will now be um parent Square platforms and um they have some really outstanding uh up-to-date um templates that uh are easily adopted uh easily swapped out um again everything I've heard from other districts that use parent Square their their customer service with the websites is is off the charts um and so um I'm really looking forward to working with them to develop that and part of that will be then there's going to be a whole process that I will be leading to um really identify you know what is that information flow that that we need to have access to on the websites right um and how do we structure
091that so that the the most important information is easily accessible in the right ways right um so I'm excited about that process it's going to be a big lift but it's going to be I think really good to really get into the nitty-gritty of how our websites work and making sure that they work the right way yeah I mean navigation will be key and I think one of the things we'll work on is is a timeline for roll out right as R has said this is going to be a big lift not only streamlining communication but the website but we've heard that through feedback right regarding communication so again appreciate both Ryan and Ray your work on this thanks to the school district for involving stakeholders in the decision-making process appreciate that that consistency and
092Kudos toay I was on that committee he was he did a really nice job of when something was urgent we got after it when people needed time to process and kind of think and marinate he did that and he came prepared and so I think that's part of the success of the process of getting everybody lined up so thanks for that thank you thank you very much thank you thanks Ryan okay we ready to vote I'm super excited me too yes yes we have people up here with kids but I think it's fair to say that this is not when we say parents Square that's the name of the app but it's going to do a lot more than just keep parents organizing their kids because of the website and other things I'm hopeful you
093can get my mom on the same page too if you can great help yes yeah so Ju Just to iterate so this will replace um School Messer which includes um eblast robocalls SMS text messaging push notifications um we'll have a brand new a a really rigorous mobile app that will come be part of this um there will be two-way messaging there will be group chats and that two-way messaging um will be for classrooms for activities for um for athletics um uh there will be um emergency notifications um I mean it's a whole it's every every aspect of communications will be covered by this awesome and the payment process if we do go that is that like lunch money field trip money like that could be sent so um that's a good question I'm I I
094I'm reluctant to get too deep in that because I haven't actually heard much from them about that yet so that's that's TVD but I will definitely keep you up to date do we are we then now bypassing your voice and calling and telling us we have snow days if we're not getting that was my next question you still want to hear your lovely voice right so you'll still hear my lovely voice but not tomorrow morning the raised dlet tones will still wake you up and first thing in okay very good thank you thanks Ray R to vote Yes ready to vote in favor post thank youo good job everybody okay next approval of agreement with Ohio pile move to approve the Royal agreement with Ohio pile as presented okay this is me too um so
095oh Ohio pile is the uh company National company that provides a National Vendor that provides um that that makes and distributes markets uh Prep High School prep gear for CVS's across the country so uh they reached out to us a while back and asked if uh we would be agreeable to having a royalty agreement with them uh for our local CVS and we said yes we would be interested in that and so this is what is being presented to you uh there I think it's uh 7% on quarterly net sales would be returned to us so this is a nice little opportunity to perhaps generate some Revenue if you buy your Bulldog gear at our local CVS any questions any questions thank you all right ready to vote all in favor post thank you next
096agreement with Frontline um um move to I have move to approve I have provision Data Solutions I went too far down okay approval of agreement with provision Data Solutions move to approve agreement with provision data solution presented second any questions all in favor post all right next approval of agreement with quality Network Solutions move to approve agreement with quality Network Solutions as presented second all in favor closed okay now we will do approvement of agreement with Frontline move to approve agreement with Frontline as presented second so this uh Frontline approval agreement is going to allow us to Pilot human capital analytics which is a uh solution that will sit on top of our current Human Resources platform again it's a pilot for the next three months to see if it's allowing us to pull some
097data that will make the visibility of our positions in the district um more manageable uh that we're more efficient with our human resources and that way we uh are more efficient with our with our money and our tax dollars so uh we're going to Pilot that for three months no cost but we have to have the agreement in order to Pilot it and then we'll we'll uh review it after June 30th and see if we want to move forward with it if it's useful a useful product for the district okay any questions all right all in favor opposed thank you revised calendar move to approve the revised 2024 2025 academic calendar as presented second so I think we're all aware of the uh amount of of inclement weather days we've had in the district and
098and raised dlet tones that he mentioned earlier uh this uh Revision in the calendar is to and we've talked about Senate Bill 727 at length uh with the board about the requirement state requirements so this makeup day on April 21st was uh scheduled as a no school day uh the the request um for this revision would to make that a school day to make up that one school day that we need to to make that state requirement um as you can see outside right now winter probably has hasn't given up quite yet so there might be a opportunity that we might have to make up some more schools so that there might be some more revisions in the future I hope not um I'm just warning everyone it's possible it's out there but uh hopefully
099Winter's Winter's done um we also sent a survey out RAC s a survey out to parents and staff uh uh asking about options for the makeup day the 21st or if we wanted to do that after the Memorial Day holiday and I believe it was a 92% approval of the April 21st so we engaged with the community and overwhelming that they thought the 21st was the the best day to choose for that makeup any questions about the calendar revision now they changed this once right during the school year already the state did they made some changes to this like is there any chance they would do that again so we've already the calendar what the state did is they clarified um the number of Ami days we could use we went into the school year
100thinking that we had five Ami days we could use um and it turns out we could use six so that that was the clarification I think you're were thinking of we did change calendar I think in December but that was that was our decision to do so okay for a December date and a February date but there I mean just so you're aware there is um some legislation out there that with 727 hopefully it will correct um as long as the school board approves a 169 day calendar or more they would not hold inclement weather days against us and would really only hold us to the minimum number of hours which is uh would year that would be next year if it gets passed so that's that's part of what we're grappling with is that
101new new bill from last year yep okay thank you for the clarification we used all 6 Ami days correct we did yes 6 Ami days two snow days and I think two twoh hour late starts but who's counting no one I don't count them it's currently 36 degrees just so everybody knows that's great any other questions about the revision okay okay ready to vote all in favor posted thank you thanks for your work on that all right board member comments always fun to highlight the students I love the spotlights I love all the success we having a really it's exciting time hey you don't mind being here later in the evening when you get to it's one of my favorite Parts yeah very good all right I'm really excited about the app we could it
102tell I'm just that out there thank you guys it's good work all right excited about the app next important dates I bet you're excited about spring break next week too right I am spring break next week 248 uh the election is on the 8th uh our next board meeting is on the 16th where we will seat new board members and April 22nd will be our next board work session miscellaneous action for a closed session to immediately proceed the regular meeting in April including any record or vote to discuss items and issues allowable under Section 61 0-21 of the Missouri Sunshine Law second roll call please Matt Baker Len Bron Meredith Cole yes John Kern Bree weitzer yes Nick Vasquez yes Darlene Bailey yes we are Jed